Common Misdiagnoses and Rickettsia siberica

Antibiotics often causes diarrhea: The use of antibiotics are very likely
to cause some level of diarrhea in patients.
The reason is that antibiotics kill off not only "bad" bacteria,
but can also kill the "good" bacteria in the gut.
This leads to "digestive imbalance" where there are too few remaining "good"
bacteria in the digestive system.
The treatment is typically to use "probiotics", such as by eating yoghurt cultures
containing more of the good bacteria.
See digestive imbalance and probiotics.

About misdiagnosis:

When checking for a misdiagnosis of Rickettsia siberica
or confirming a diagnosis of Rickettsia siberica,
it is useful to consider what other
medical conditions might be possible misdiagnoses or other alternative
conditions relevant to diagnosis.
These alternate diagnoses of Rickettsia siberica may already have
been considered by your doctor or may need to be considered as possible
alternative diagnoses or candidates for misdiagnosis of Rickettsia siberica.
For a general overview of misdiagnosis issues for all diseases,
see Overview of Misdiagnosis.

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